TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

It will also use the investment to continue building out its technology, specifically to help build out better, AI-based techniques of processing and parsing pictures that are taken on smartphones — by their nature small in size. There are other companies that have also identified this opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu has been seeing 100% growth year-on-year, but notably, Mambu covered 50 markets when it last raised money, €30 million in 2019 , so you can argue it has some investing and expanding to do on that front. Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools. That could lead to consolidation, too.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Founded initially back in 2015, Santa Barbara, California-based Bitwarden operates in a space that includes well-known incumbents such as 1Password, which recently hit a $6.8 “Most importantly, we aim to continue to serve all Bitwarden users for the long haul.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In total, the company has raised over $150 million in equity funding since its 2019 inception. One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents. It’s also looking for M&A opportunities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To give you an idea of just how bad it is, reports indicated that in 2019, credit card interest rates neared a staggering 300% in Brazil. “It’s a huge market that is still controlled by incumbents charging extremely high interest rates, which makes it difficult for people to pay back their loans.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million of Series A investment, led by Integrated Capital, to continue developing its line of healthier food brands. Their ability to bring products to market in a short amount of time, with asset-light infrastructure, is a big opportunity.”. Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5 Image Credits: The Naked Market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Virgio says consumers’ fashion preferences are changing rapidly and they are not satisfied with the incumbents’ offerings. “We are confident in Virgio’s tech-first model and believe the startup’s expert founding team is uniquely positioned to capture a large opportunity in India’s fashion industry,” he added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

This Series C is being led by D2 Investments, a new investment fund with LPs from the U.S. and United Emirates; and existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Pitango, D1 Capital, Atreides Management, and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services are also participating.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling Leonard Brody, one of the event’s carefully selected speakers who is known as “a leader of the new world order.” Along with new competition comes new opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

In 2019, Barclays Bank and Bold Capital Partners co-led a $5.5 With this latest investment, Crowdz and Citi plan to collaborate based on that goal of giving SMEs “rapid and efficient access to the working capital needed to keep their businesses running.” million Series A funding round for Crowdz. million. . “A

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

We way underestimated Textio’s stickiness within HR and how deeply HR execs would invest in Textio. Are there specific paths/opportunities in AI that you believe startups are actually better qualified to take advantage of than incumbents? Big companies are also rich with much more cash to fund AI investments and compute costs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

He exited the company to Lowe’s in 2019. As part of the investment, Priya Saiprasad, partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining CommerceIQ’s board of directors. “E-commerce reported this month that $51 billion of venture capital was invested into U.S. trillion retail industry at a massive inflection point.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million since its 2019 inception. For its part, Patrick Backhouse of Greenoaks Capital believes that Brazil has an “enormous” SME economy that has historically been “underserved by incumbent banks.”. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The investment comes as the startup is ramping up efforts to expand into the U.S. Part of the investment will be used to hire more staff in South Africa and support the commercial expansion to the U.S. “How we’ve disrupted our space in South Africa, we see an opportunity over there. ” The SMB market in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

He founded the company in 2019 under the premise that while many industries have undergone digital transformation initiatives, the mortgage industry is still largely reliant on “the same expensive and cumbersome processes and tasks that have been in use for decades.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

But one of the more successful vendors is Cast AI , which today announced that it raised $20 million in an investment led by Creandum with participation from unnamed existing investors. We will also invest in other features to help our customers with ‘day-two’ operations, like monitoring, testing and alerting.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Remote working — hiring people further afield and letting people work outside of a central physical office — is looking like it will be here to stay, and today one of the startups building tools for that environment is announcing a big fundraise in response to the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in 2019. Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multi-stage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever, and Outschool). What opportunities are fading as the space matures? We invested in 14 new companies and are just finishing rounds in 2 more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

TechCrunch reached out to Dufétel to find out more about her plans as Checkout.com’s new president, including what’s in store for the company this year, her thoughts on the future of payments generally and why she sees so much opportunity in the U.S. We also asked how she felt about the comparisons to Stripe…and her answer may surprise you.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. As such, banking-as-a-service platforms see an opportunity to provide more personalized services and flexibility at less cost.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

If it sounds frustrating as a salesperson, well, that’s what AcuityMD is here to resolve; to find opportunities for your sales process. We launched Tactoset in 2019, a key regenerative technology for Anika in a $100 million+ addressable market. “Instead we got 140 instruments in a surgical tray.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere. ” In other news.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation. billion ($1.8

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

At that time, CEO Ricardo Weder told TechCrunch that the company, which was founded in 2019, weathered the first year of the global pandemic well, seeing 2020 revenue increase 16-fold. The global pandemic helped a lot in terms of grocery adoption in Latin America,” he added. Meanwhile, the online grocery industry in the U.S. billion in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

It plans to use the money to continue investing in its technology stack, to step up with more business development, and to hire more talent for its team, to meet what it believes are changing tides in the world of data warehousing. The opportunity that Firebolt is targeting is a ripe one in the world of enterprise. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The funding is being co-led by Cota Capital and TempoCap, with participation also from Element Ventures, MissionOG and PostFinance as well as past investors Octopus Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures and SBI Investments. The company is not disclosing valuation but CEO Todd Clyde confirmed it was up compared to its previous financing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The seed round is coming almost three years after NALA secured a seven-figure pre-seed round led by Accel in 2019. The business opportunity for remittance is lucrative despite digital lenders vying for less than 20% of the international money market dominated by traditional offline players. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They originally started Sheltr, which connected customers with trained maintenance professionals and was acquired by Hippo in 2019. In addition, one of the only ways insurance companies can make a profit is by taking those hundreds of millions of dollars in payments and investing it. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

” The company added that a corporate credit card has been one of the most requested features from customers since Mercury launched in 2019. This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. “It’s straightforward 1.5%

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

There is a clear opportunity to upend the status quo, but its intricacies have made freight one of the toughest sectors in which to build an online marketplace. In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., We invested anyway.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? What are some overlooked opportunities right now? More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

They saw me as an American that could bring them business opportunities and that was it, I felt that I was judged more on the merits of the value that I could bring than I would in the U.S. — Spurred by opportunities, I started a successful import and export business in China, and after a few years I had over 30 employees.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

And this gives Affirm an opportunity to generate more revenue as it makes money in part on interest fees. But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers.

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